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Filipinos will join thousands of people around the world in the campaign to end hunger, the United Nations’ World Food Programme announced on 1 June.
The WFP, together with its global humanitarian partners TNT, Unilever and DSM, will hold its yearly campaign, dubbed "End Hunger: Walk the World 2010," this Sunday in ”Bonifacio Global City”, an exclusive, luxury corporate real estate development within Taguig City. Guards patrol the grounds 24 hours a day.
The theme of the fund-raising activity is "Isang Hakbang! Pilipinas 2010."
The fun run and walk will start 05:00 a.m.
TNT is a global mail and express delivery company serving more than 200 countries. Since 2002, TNT has been an active partner of WFP and to date has invested over $50 million in the partnership.
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong local roots in more than 100 countries across the globe. Unilever joined forces with WFP in January 2007 for a three-year partnership to improve the nutrition and health of poor, school-aged children around the world.
DSM Nutritional Products Philippines Inc, based in Makati, Manila, is a subsidiary of Royal DSM N.V., a Dutch transnational corporation.
Sources
Helen Flores, ”Filipinos join call to end hunger” (philstar.com), updated June 01, 2010 12:54 p.m.
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